Punctuation Mark Teaching Resources :: 769

Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Italics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This entry provides the rules and examples for when and how to use italics and quotation marks in titles, quotations, and more.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Short Quotation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th

This slideshow tutorial focuses on punctuating short quotations; it defines short quotations, explains how to smoothly integrate quotations into your writing, and gives the rules for punctuating them according to method of integration.

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The Economist

The Economist: Economist Style Guide: Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This resource provides a brief discussion of each of the following types of punctuation: apostrophes, brackets, colons, commas, dashes, full-stops, inverted commas, question marks, and semi-colons. Examples are included for each type of...

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Speech Marks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers the basic conventions of speech punctuation.

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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Parts of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Explore the world of "Parts of a Sentence." Find out about adjectives, nouns, prepositions and more. This site features an overview of each part of speech.

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Roy the Zebra

Roy the Zebra: The Big Full Stop Tidy Up [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Learners will help Roy the Zebra learn about the "period" as a way to end complete sentences. Students will look at various pictures and then add periods to their related sentences. Then the learners will construct their own sentences...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Divided Quotation Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th

An eight-slide presentation explaining how to properly punctuate a divided quote.

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Other

Marking His Place: Ben Jonson's Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This article proposes a theory for the way the English playwright spelled and puncuated his name with a colon: Ben:Jonson.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons

For Teachers 6th - 8th

Practical lesson on middle schoolers' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."

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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ninth Grade Lit and Comp: Grammar Ii and Technical Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This is an introduction to a unit on grammar and technical writing; it includes capitalization and punctuation. It provides links to several sites having to do with punctuation and capitalization rules.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 1 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3 (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

You will proofread and mark errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing: Editing: Strategies for Editing: Practice 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A learning module that teaches students about editing their writing in four mini-lessons: Introduction, Avoiding Coma Catastrophes, Placing Quotation Marks, Apostrophes, Em Dashes Like a Pro, and and Putting It All Together.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Brackets

For Students 9th - 10th

This slideshow lesson focuses on brackets by providing background information and uses including the following: clarify details, adding emphasis, modifying quoted material, and marking errors in quotations using [sic]. It provides...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Colons and Dashes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This tutorial offers two slideshows: one for colons and one for dashes. They each state the purpose of the mark and tell when they are used along with examples.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations: Lesson 3

For Students 9th - 10th

This slideshow lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Quotations within Quotations."

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations: Lesson 4

For Students 9th - 10th

This lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Quotations within Quotations."

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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: 3rd Grade Grammar

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

This article focuses on the grammar and punctuation that third graders need to learn including the parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adverbs, and prepositions), punctuation marks (question mark, exclamation points, and periods), and the...

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Quotations Within Quotations

For Students 9th - 10th

This lesson introduces the punctuation rules for including a quotation within a quotation. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow and provides review questions over the lesson's content.

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